Some of the slogans that a few people visiting the cave shrine atop Bababudangiri in Chikkamagaluru taluk raised on Tuesday left policemen and government officials on duty upset. The visitors, a majority of whom were in the age group of 20 to 30, raised slogans that were critical of policemen, insensitive to women, and targeted people of a particular religion.
Around 13,000 people from Chikkamagaluru and neighbouring districts visited Sri Guru Dattatreya Bababudan Swamy Dargah, the shrine, on the final day of the three-day Datta Jayanti celebrations.
Along the route and even after reaching the shrine, they raised slogans hailing Datta and Rama. Besides them, they had many rhyming couplets that were provocative in nature. A teenage girl, who was with other devotees in queue to enter the cave shrine, was visibly upset when the crowd surrounding her shouted an obnoxious two-liner. Another group of people, all clad in saffron, were seen doing rounds on the shrine premises, chanting objectionable slogans. Nobody stopped them. They ignored policemen, who subtly told them to stop raising such slogans.
